LeopardsAteMyFace

"Being here, in solidarity, is part of the repair work in my own soul,” said Rev. Rob Schenck, an Evangelical minister who spent decades commingling church and state to advance conservative causes like the anti-abortion movement. One example: Schenck’s organization, Faith and Action in the Nation’s Capital, created “Operation Higher Court,” which trained wealthy couples as “stealth missionaries” to befriend Supreme Court justices to preserve, in his words, a Christian nation.

Now, he says he must confront the damage he helped cause, including what he believes was his role in delivering “the entities that are now inflicting all of this suffering on so many people”—extending to the rise of President Donald Trump. “We made this terrible deal with Donald Trump because we were already demoralized,” he told Mother Jones in 2018. “He didn’t demoralize us—he is the evidence of our demoralization.”

Older story but it checks out.

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After the West Virginia governor approved a bill that would allow citizens to drink unpasteurised milk, several legislators toasted the new law with a glass and promptly fell ill.

“I’m not feeling that great,” said Pat McGeehan, who said he was handed a glass of milk in a corridor of the capitol building in Charleston, shortly after the bill was signed into law.

In a remarkable display of open government, Mr McGeehan allowed a crew from WSAZ, a local television station, to interview him as he lay prone upon a sofa in his office, eyes closed, a patina of sweat upon his pale face.

“I think it’s probably just some sort of bad stomach virus,” he said. “There is definitely some other colleagues that have similar symptoms.”

Mr McGeehan has named Scott Cadle, a Republican, as the man who supplied him with the milk, an act which may technically have been in breach of the law.

Mr Cadle, who also fell ill, had sponsored the bill, approved last week by the governor, which allows for “herd sharing” agreements. It would allow West Virginians to buy a share in a cow, goat or other “milk producing animal” and receive its milk raw.

First they must sign a statement acknowledging the “dangers of consuming raw milk that may contain bacteria, such as brucella,campylobacter,listeria,salmonella and E. coli”.

An investigation into the causes of the stomach upset is now under way.

Allison Adler, a spokeswoman for the department of public health, said that “the distribution of raw milk was in violation of the law and that it may have caused an outbreak of disease”.

Source: https://www.tiktok.com/@iowastartingline/video/7582383727586643214

Reportedly, Ceballos misunderstood the meaning of that residency and thought he was authorized to register to vote. And vote he did, in several elections, and always as a staunch Republican. He voted for Donald Trump in all of the last three Presidential elections. He believes he also voted for Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach all four times he ran for election in the state as well. But holding a green card does not authorize him to participate in voting and now the 54 year old is facing both felony charges for fraud brought by Kobach himself, as well as deportation from the Trump administration that he and most of his town voted into office.

https://www.reddit.com/r/trump/s/CLIh3NlXBc

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/55031266

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https://www.usluck.com/703903/the-only-thing-keeping-them-on-the-train-is-the-dehumanization-of-brown-people-in-this-country/

That’s because the Trump administration is rewriting the disability eligibility rules, ostensibly to modernize the program, in ways that will make it even harder for aging blue-collar workers like Tincher to get benefits. Hundreds of thousands just like him would become ineligible for aid.

These changes would fall disproportionately on some of Trump’s most loyal supporters in red states. Most affected would be 50- to 60-year-olds without a high school or college education who have, for decades, toiled in physically grueling jobs, including coal mining, logging, and factory and construction work. The five states where the highest proportions of people rely on these benefits are West Virginia, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi and Alabama. Unlike New York, California and a few others, these states do not have their own disability insurance programs for workers to turn to amid federal cuts.

Enjoy the economy you voted for, Alabama!

A little historical reference

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https://xcancel.com/factpostnews/status/1974173171868745948

As soon as I was replying evidence this business owner voted for Trump, the crosspost got deleted. I forgot who asked, but here it is:

His hat.
Also note he’s talking about competition, not feeding the starving. He feels betrayed Argentina got subsidized and he did not.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/32343085

Torres, who was born in Mexico and migrated legally to the United States at age 5, is afraid to venture far from home as President Donald Trump works to carry out his mass deportation agenda. Torres has a green card residency permit and a record of service in the U.S. military, but he was detained by immigration authorities last year under the Biden administration. He fears that U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement raids under Trump could only mean more trouble.

“Do I want to leave this nation? No. I want to serve it. I want to continue to serve my community,” Torres told The Associated Press. “It breaks my heart that I fought for this nation to raise my children in this nation, and now I have to pull my children out of this nation if I get deported. Then what did I fight for?”

There are well more than 100,000 military veterans living in the U.S. who do not have citizenship, according to estimates in recent years by the Congressional Research Service. Despite military recruiters frequently describing service as a fast-track to citizenship for troops and their family members, the Republican administration’s immigration agenda is putting them at renewed risk of deportation.

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Trade deals many had hoped would quickly emerge after President Donald Trump slapped tariffs on some of the United States’ biggest agricultural customers haven’t come. A farm bailout is no sure thing on Capitol Hill. And farmers — many of whom voted for Trump — say time is running out.

“It just seems like things have stalled all summer long,” said Brian Warpup, who grows corn and soybeans on his 3,900-acre farm in northeastern Indiana. “We’re always hopeful that those negotiations are moving forward, but yet with harvest here, patience may be running thin.”

Across the US, farmers describe increasingly dire circumstances stemming from a confluence of factors — trade wars, Trump’s immigration crackdown, inflation and high interest rates.

Though the challenges vary in different parts of the country, farmers in some cases, particularly on the West Coast, are struggling to find labor to pick their harvest. Others, especially in the Midwest, said they can’t sell what they’ve produced. And many are scrambling to find storage.

“This is not your ordinary farm crisis. We call it ‘farmageddon,’ and it’s really a tough time,”

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At our Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute forum, over 100 business leaders said what they really think. They're worried Trump is eroding America’s future.